Technology News
Thousands of Russians protest against internet restrictions
Reuters - 10 Mar 2019 15:48
Thousands of people took to the streets of Moscow and two other cities on Sunday to rally against tighter internet restrictions, in some of the biggest protests in the Russian capital in years.
Care home dehydration tests don't work
EurekAlert! - 10 Mar 2019 07:00
(University of East Anglia) Carers often use simple tests to see if an older person is dehydrated. These include looking at their eyes, skin, or asking if someone feels thirsty, tired or has a headache. But new research ...
Apex Legends cheaters beware: 355,000 banned, report system coming soon
Digital Trends - 10 Mar 2019 22:09
Respawn Entertainment has banned over 355,000 cheaters on the PC version of Apex Legends. The studio revealed some of its plans in how to prevent the problem from getting worse, including the addition of an in-game repor...
Astronomers Think They Can Explain Mysterious Cosmic Bursts
Wired - 10 Mar 2019 14:00
A new, testable theory proposes that fast radio bursts may draw their power from young neutron stars called magnetars.
Foursquare introduces Hypertrending feature: Creepy or cool?
Digital Trends - 10 Mar 2019 04:10
Foursquare introduced the Hypertrending technology, which shows the most popular spots in town through the size of dots on a map. Foursquare's co-founder recognizes that the feature walks the fine line between being cree...
FDA Lifts Import Ban on Genetically Modified Salmon That Reach Market Twice as Fast
Gizmodo - 10 Mar 2019 04:00
The Food and Drug Administration announced on Friday that it is lifting an import ban that prevented a brand of genetically modified salmon--dubbed "Frankenfish" by some--from reaching U.S. shopping selves, CNN reported....
Iranian hackers stole terabytes of data from software giant Citrix
Engadget - 10 Mar 2019 03:33
Citrix is best-known for software that runs behind the scenes, but a massive data breach is putting the company front and center. The FBI has warned Citrix that it believes reports of foreign hackers compromising the com...
Apple joins list of Elizabeth Warren's tech breakup targets - CNET
CNET - 10 Mar 2019 20:13
Senator wants the company separated from its App Store.
Dialog Semiconductor Acquires WiFi Products Supplier
Medical Design Technology - 10 Mar 2019 16:29
News Power management products supplier Dialog Semiconductor plc has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Silicon Motion Technology Corporation's Mobile Communications product line, branded as FCI... Staff Author: Sp...
Tons of Pressurized Oxygen Could Be Hiding Out in Earth's Molten Iron Core
SPACE.com - 10 Mar 2019 15:14
Earth's vast magma oceans, roiling deep beneath our feet, seem to be pumping oxygen into the planet's liquid core.
Fukushima's underground ice wall keeps nuclear radiation at bay - CNET
CNET - 10 Mar 2019 15:00
Think Game of Thrones, but this one is underground and defends against a far more realistic threat.
How VR brought me inside a scary-real radioactive Fukushima reactor - CNET
CNET - 10 Mar 2019 15:00
Here's what it's like inside the melted down reactors of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
Facebook sues Ukrainian browser extension makers for scraping user data
ZDNet - 10 Mar 2019 14:49
Facebook said the malicious extensions were installed by more than 63,000 users.
A brief history of Wi-Fi security protocols from "oh my, that's bad" to WPA3
Ars Technica - 10 Mar 2019 14:00
Enjoy our primer on the ups and downs of Wi-Fi protocols since the mid-1990s.
Series will give Snap's founding story the 'Social Network' treatment
Engadget - 10 Mar 2019 13:57
Quibi, an upcoming mobile-first video streaming service, will create a series based on Snap's founding. Film executive Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman -- HP Enterprise's former CEO and current Quibi chief -- have anno...
Nvidia RTX 2080 vs. GTX 1080: A next-gen gaming laptop showdown - CNET
CNET - 10 Mar 2019 13:00
The latest gaming laptops with Nvidia RTX 2080 graphics take on a last-gen leader.
Krossblade SkyProwler 2 VTOL Transformer UAV does more than a regular drone
The Gadget Flow - 10 Mar 2019 08:00
Take off and land vertically with the Easily Krossblade SkyProwler 2 VTOL Transformer UAV. Designed for drone enthusiasts, this device uses four propellers to get it off the ground. Once the SkyProwler 2 is in the air, y...
Study of young athletes suggests snoring and sleep apnea are linked to sudden cardiac death
EurekAlert! - 10 Mar 2019 07:00
(European Lung Foundation) A study of university rugby players has shown that they are more likely to suffer sleep disordered breathing than an average middle-aged man. The study also showed that the athletes who experie...
Streamlining restaurant operations
MIT - 10 Mar 2019 07:00
Alumni-founded Toast provides technologies that help get an order from a customer to the kitchen and back again.
Smoking, high blood pressure, diabetes and obesity each linked to unhealthy brains
EurekAlert! - 10 Mar 2019 07:00
(European Society of Cardiology) Factors that influence the health of our blood vessels, such as smoking, high blood and pulse pressures, obesity and diabetes, are linked to less healthy brains, according to research pub...
Avast and Emsisoft release free decrypters for BigBobRoss ransomware
ZDNet - 10 Mar 2019 04:26
BigBobRoss ransomware has been active since mid-January.